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Published By: KAIST, 04/10/2017

Summary

Professor Uichin Lee and a research team at KAIST have developed and tested an app called Mobile Roadwatch. Mobile Roadwatch is a crowdsourced app that helps drivers record traffic violations with their phones and report them to the police. Professor Lee and his team aim to provide a safer way to capture and report traffic violations while operating a vehicle, in hopes that the reports will improve public safety.

Extended Discussion Questions

(Depending on grade level) As a driver/Imagining yourself as a driver in a couple years, how seriously do you take the rules of the road? Why? How would the possibility of having your driving recorded affect your driving habits?

How might citizen participation in the traffic citation system with Mobile Roadwatch help enforce safer driving habits?

Could Mobile Roadwatch promote any bad driving habits? How?

What are some privacy issues that video recording of the road may cause for the driver (accused of) committing the traffic violation?

What are some privacy issues the person reporting the violation may face?

What are some privacy issues bystanders or other drivers near the location of the recorded violation may face?

Are there ways any of these privacy issues could be prevented or mitigated?

The article notes that Korea’s “Looking for a Witness” traffic violation app received over 500,000 reports in a year and a half.

What issues could come from having so much information from crowdsourced traffic violation reporting?

How could that flood of information be dealt with to avoid information overload?

How do you think existing prejudices in society might affect which violations are reported?

How could those issues be mitigated?

Imagine you are in court fighting a small traffic citation, and the police officer introduces a video recording of a past unrelated violation you weren’t ever cited for. How could this affect your chances of dismissing the citation?